Hose-supporter.



PATENTED MAY 30, 1905.

M. B. HAMMOND.

HOSE SUPPORTER.

APPLIOATION FILED mums. 1902.

MODEL.

INVENTOR' WITNESSES:

Patented May 30, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

MYRON B. HAMMOND, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

HOSE-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 790,959, dated. May 30, 1905.

I Application filed March 26, 1902- Serial No. 100,068.

To all whom. it nut/y concern:

Be it known that I, MYRON B. HAMMOND, a citizen of the United States,residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairlield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hose-Supporters; and 1 do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to hose-supporters adapted to be attached to corsets, at the front thereof; and it consists of certain novel parts and combinations of parts particularly pointed out in the claims concluding this specification.

In the accompanying drawings 1 have shown my invention embodied in a form which is at present preferred by me; but it will be understood that various modifications and changes may be made without departing from the spirit of my invention and without exceeding the scope of my claims.

The following is a description of the drawings: Figure 1 is a front elevation showing a section of a corset with my improvement applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a rear perspective View of the metallic fastener which attaches over the loop element of the corset-clasp, and Fig. 3 is a rear perspective view of the metallic fastener which attaches over the stud element of the corset-clasp.

Similar numbers of reference denote like parts in the several figures of the drawings.

1 2 are the corset-sections, which carry, respectively, the loop 3 and stud L of the usual form of corset-clasp.

5 6 are flexible pads, which when their inner edges are abutted together present the appealrance and advantages of the usual form of p 7 is a metallic fastener secured in any suitable manner to the upper portion of the pad 5 and provided with rearwardly-extending flanges 8 9, separated by a distance about equal to the width of the loop 3, said fastener being cut away, as shown at 10, whereby a clear space is left between said flanges. These flanges are resilient, so that when the fastener is applied they will tightly bear against the corset-husk which carries the loop, while the loop itself will be embraced between the flanges thus preventing vertical displace ment of the fastener. This form of fastener is shown, described, and claimed in my Letters Patent No. 679,893, issued August 6, 1901, and I therefore do not wish to be understood as claiming any novelty in the fastener itself, and I have illustrated this particular construction as a preferred form of fastener and I do not wish to be limited thereby, since any other form of fastener adapted to engage with the loop or its eye will answer the purposes of my invention.

11 is a metallic fastener secured to the upper portion of the pad 6 and provided with rearwardly-extending resilient flanges 12 13, and also having its edge cut away, as shown at 14, a recess 15 being provided in the upper part of said cut-away portion to accommodate the stud of the corset-clasp. When applied to the edge of the corset-husk carrying the stud, the flanges 12 13 will bear tightly against the under side of the busk, while the shank of the stud will lie within the recess 15. The fastener is thin enough so that it will not interfere with the ready manipulation of the elements of the corset-clasp. This fastener 11 is very readily applied and removed. In applying the same the upper flange 12 is first placed behind the busk and the fastener drawn downwardly and over the top of the stud until it passes over the head of the stud and lies snugly behind the same at the extreme backward part of the cut-away portion. This leaves the fastener in a slanting position with the lower flange immediately beyond the edge of the busk, and this flange is then readily pushed into position and the fastener drawn down, so as to bring the stud of the corset-clasp within the recess 15. In removing the fastener the latter is first pushed upwardly, so as to bring the stud opposite to the extreme rear part of the cutaway portion 14, and the lower part of the fastener is then swung outwardly, so as to bring the lower flange clear of the husk The lower portion of the fastener is then lifted slightly and swung inwardly over the top of the husk and the fastener then forced upwardly and to one side, thus bringing the upper flange clear of the busk.

I do not wish to be understood as claiming herein any specific construction of this fastener 11, since an approved form of fastener of this description is made the subject of Letters Patent issued to me July 8, 1902, No. 704,249. and, morever, any sort of a fastener which will engage the busk and the stud is suitable for the purposes of my invention. Nor do I Wish to be understood as claiming herein the broad construction comprising two independent segregate supporting members capable of attachment to opposite busks of a corset, since this broad construction is claimed by me in a pending application filed October 20, 1902, and bearing Serial No. 128,036.

It will thus be seen that when the parts of my improved hose-supporter are in position on the corset all the advantages of a supporter having a single point of attachment and in its preferred form of a supporter having an integral pad will be preserved, while the sections of the corset may be clasped and unclasped and the corset removed entirely without disturbing the parts of my improvement.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure-by Letters Patent, is

1. A hose-supporting device composed of two parts each having a flange adapted to embrace one of the corset-steels, one of said parts being adapted to engage the eye of the corsetclasp and the other of said parts being adapted to engage the stud of the corset-clasp, as and for the purpose described.

2. A hose-supporter device composed of two independent parts, one of said parts having at its upper end a rigid sheet-metal hook adapted to passively engage the loop of a corset-clasp, the other of said parts also having at its upper end a rigid sheet-metal hook adapted to passively engage the stud of said clasp, said parts when in such engagement being separate from and independent of each other.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MYRON B. HAMMOND. \Vitnesses:

F. W. SMITH, J r., M. T. LONGDEN. 

